Jotto Jog Mystery Cache
Fish Soup: I checked on this one today and it is missing...again. Time for this one to retire.
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To solve this puzzle cache (which is not located at the coordinates above), you'll need to play a logic word game called Jotto.
Jotto is a game where one player (that would be me) thinks of a 5-letter word and other players (that would be you) try to guess the word by making successive guesses of other 5-letter words. After each guess, the guessers are told how many of the letters in their word are also in the secret word. In so doing, guessers can zero in on the correct 5-letter word by using their immensely powerful logical brains. By the way, all the letters in each 5-letter word must be different from each other (i.e., "cache" would not be a legal guess). Full interactivity, where you get to choose your guesses, is not possible in this forum, so I've given you a dozen words below, along with the number of correct (in the secret word) letters.
bison - 0 correct
glove - 0 correct
fishy - 0 correct
bench - 1 correct
forum - 1 correct
quest - 1 correct
north - 2 correct
micro - 2 correct
braid - 2 correct
watch - 3 correct
spark - 3 correct
earth - 3 correct
Your task is to determine the 5 letter word that logically results from the guesses shown above. Once you've done that, convert each letter to numbers using the following key:
A1…B2…C3…D4…E5…F6…G7…H8…I9…J1…K2…L3…M4...N5…O6…P7…Q8…R1…S2…T3…U4…V5…W6…X7…Y8…Z9
Designate those 5 numbers as abcde. The bison tube is located at 47 40.fgh and 122 18.ijk, where:
f = 2 x a
g = d
h = b + c
i = c + e
j = 2 x e
k = a
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ebpx jnyy
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